Dr. Novobilski is new dean of Sciences and MathematicsASU-Jonesboro announces the selection of Dr. Andrew J. Novobilski as the
new dean of the College of Sciences and Mathematics. Dr. Novobilski comes to
ASU-Jonesboro from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC),
where he recently served as assistant provost for Research and
Engagement, as the university’s chief research officer, and as
professor and department head for the Department of Computer Science
and Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science. Dr.
Novobilski assumed his new duties on Wednesday, July 1. Dr. Novobilski
earned his doctoral degree in Computer Science and Engineering at
the University of Texas, Arlington, his master of science degree in
Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas,
Arlington, and his bachelor of science degree in Computer Science at
Drexel University. His research interests include academic
leadership, community partnership and engagement, biomedical
informatics, machine learning, cognitive models, Bayesian networks,
aviation, human/computer interface, high-performance computing, and
computer graphics. Among Dr. Novobilski’s honors are his being
selected for a 2007-08 American Council on Education Fellowship,
which he spent at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in the Office
of the Chancellor. Other honors and awards include his achievement
of his election to the Sigma Xi Research Society and Upsilon Pi
Epsilon Computer Science Honor Society in 2004, and his winning of
the UT Chattanooga Outstanding Computer Science Teaching award in
2001. For details, see the
NewsPage release.

Drs.
O'Connor and Milner make four presentations
Since the start of the new year, Dr. Clyde Milner, History, and
Dr. Carol O’Connor, History,
have made four presentations about their co-authored book, As Big as
the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart, published by Oxford
University Press. Most recently they discussed the larger context of
their work at a special panel on "Ranching and Writing" set up at
the National Cowboy and Western History Museum in Oklahoma City
– the only session on Friday
afternoon, June 19, for the national conference of the Western
Writers of America. Earlier this year, they presented a public
lecture on January 12 in Little Rock at the Central Arkansas Library
at the invitation of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies. On
March 26, they spoke in Dallas, Texas, to a seminar of graduate
students in the history program at Southern Methodist University and
then delivered a public lecture that evening sponsored by the
university’s Clements Center for Southwest Studies. On April 17,
they spoke by invitation to the faculty and students of the history
department at the University of New Mexico. Dr. O’Connor is interim
dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Dr. Milner
directs the Heritage Studies Ph.D. Program.

Dr. Engelken presents, publishes at annual conferenceDr. Robert Engelken, Engineering, made the presentation,
"Building Academic Vision upon Academic Wealth and Balance:
Perspectives from Two Decades down the Road" at the 2009 annual
conference and exhibition of the American Society for Engineering
Education in Austin, Texas, on June 16. A full-length refereed paper
upon which the presentation was based was published in the
conference proceedings. Back to the top